Actually, it's better to compare dps with a wait to lb damage over lb cast less the wait time.

No. You're comparing the dps of the wholehalf rotations with the wait, with the dps of lb over the cast time minus the wait.

It's a process of elimination. On both sides there will be 2 LvB, 1 FS, 6 FS ticks, and X LB casts over time Y (made up of the cast times for 2 LvB, 1 FS, X LB, and two wait times A & B) vs the no wait rotation of 2 LvB, 1 FS, 6 FS ticks, X+2 LB over time Z (2 LvB, 1 FS, X+2 LB).

So if we eliminate common details, we see that you have DPS of the rotation on one side, vs 2 LB damage over 2LB-A-B time. Generally you can split this into the two halves, and although you should probably compare to the dps of each half rotation I just use the whole to make things easier.

The result is that you compare DPS of the half/whole rotation against LB damage/LB Cast - A or B

TL;DR: You need to compare whole rotations, or the difference between them, rather than individual spells.

Hello.

Enhancement question:

I've been pondering this for quite some time now and been trying to look for the answer from everywhere; is haste worth gemming and enchating or is ap + crit simply better? Myself I've got only a little haste from gear (less than 200) and I seen a lot of enh shamans with around 400-500 haste rating without gemming for it. I'm not really good with EP values and such, but I've been trying to get some info out of simulators. I was using Enhsim but didn't quite understand it. I also downloaded rawr, but it seems to give me really weird results. It is telling me to gem for hit haste and ap even though I have over 17% hit with raidbuffs included. I'm trying to look for an answer how to get the most out of my gear with gemming and such. It seems that half of the shamans I've inspected on armory go for ap and crit and the other half for ap haste. But it's hard to say as I've not seen any logs or anything... wondering if there is some sort of rule or something how much crit % you can get and then go for another stat.

Go gem/enchant cloak with haste to get more or stay with ap crit gems and wait until you get haste from gear?

My dps seems to be just fine though, at least I think so, just want to know if I can do better with some changes.

Thanks. Leal

Ps. hopefully this doesn't sound like "help me not suck" post

I basically just examined a small part of the rotation, because the rest of it is the same.
Until I have to decide whether I cast another LB or not the dps of the rotation is exactly the same. Now I take a small part of the rotation and check at what wait amount the (LB) + wait + LvB does more dps than (LB) + LB + LvB (the LB in () is not calculated). I left the LvB as part of the equation, because I have nothing to compare if I leave that out.
I don't really understand yet how they can be compared.

I don't think that the calculation will work correctly with how you're doing it there. I'll put together some examples for you later comparing different calculation methods.

What I meant was that you have two cooldown windows, but one has an extra GCD taken up by recasting FS. As such, you have A (8/LB) and B((8-GCD)/LB), and you have to do two separate calculations around each.

Is it worth getting the 354 hit rating for my shaman (The World of Warcraft Armory) to hit the hard cap, asuming I could even FIND the necessary hit??

I'm currently on vacation and can't use EnhanceSim to check this out for myself but I'm wondering if it's advised to gem expertise instead of AP to raise your expertise on your offhand if you're wielding a Fistwep / Mace thus putting you at 31/26 expertise instead of 26/21 expertise.

If you do some searching around the EnhSim thread you can find graphs and outputs for increasing haste in steps of about 4 rating over a large interval. The poster applied mathematical regression techniques to the data to find the average value of haste once the proc rate of WF is effectively capped (due to the ICD). I believe the EP value of haste was found to average around 2.0.

EDIT:
I found the post here: EnhSim, DPS simulator
and here: EnhSim, DPS simulator

Hey guys, I have an alt shaman and was wondering about my dps since I switched my dps spec to enhancement.
(I really only leveled the char to play enhancement at 80, was really looking forward to it.)

My char is properly equipped and gemmed. I follow tips from EJ and use the proper rotations. Now I am a little bit dissapointed of my dps. I dont seem to even break the 2,5k @ "easy" bosses like emalon or archavon.

My Armory Link: The World of Warcraft Armory
I use WF/FT and 45hit potions to compensate my hitlack.

Anybody got a clue or is it just my current gear?

I've been mulling over a change in my overall gear and I'm wondering if I'm missing something here.

Currently using 28 spellpower to gloves and Totem of Hex which is giving me 165 spellpower to LB/CL.

I also have the Scale of Fates which I'm using basically on an as needed basis or to boost times where I'm using elemental mastery outside of heroism or when there is another beneficial time to use it (shadowcrashes, stormpower, etc)

I'm considering getting the Totem of Electrifying Winds (200 haste with a current reported 100% uptime) and the Hyperspeed Accelerators (340 haste for 12 sec on a 1 min cooldown) as well as changing my lightning bolt to a macro that attempts to pop both the Hyperspeed Accelerators and the Scale of Fates at anytime they are up. My current haste on gear is at 548.

Although it concerns me to lose that big chunk of spellpower, I'm thinking the overall will be an increase for the following reasons:

1.) Haste affecting both lava burst and the overall GCD in addition to my lightning bolts.

2.) More casts = more lightning overload procs

3.) With constant haste being applied, it could smooth out my haste enough that elemental mastery could be popped more often instead of waiting for the "perfect moment"

So my questions are:

1.) Is the haste benefit for the GCD in casting noticable with the amounts of haste that I would be gaining?

2.) Is utilizing the Accelerators and Scale of Fates on a macro to keep them with maximum uptime the smartest idea or is it still better to wait for the optimal time?

3.) Is the loss of spellpower affecting both lightning bolts, flame shock, and lavaburst going to hurt more than the haste gained?

Armory Link = Here

Possibly but it's very very short (Sorry for the useless anecdote). You cannot refresh it once its active but it can be refreshed immediately once the buff wears off. The maximum I've had to wait for it to proc was three chain heals from the limited testing I did prior to pulling this weeks ID.

The buff itself is called Spiritual Trance.